Reports & recommendations
26 recommendations, each with the government response on the record. Filter by government response or delivery status.
Reports (1)
| Title | Volume | Publication Date | Recommendations | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report into the Death of Jermaine Baker | - | 05 Jul 2022 | 26 |
Recommendations (2)
Recording and documentation of firearms planning meetings and briefings
MPS Armed Policing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to be amended so that: a. Notes and/or audio recordings should be made of all meetings in relation to general strategy where it is envisaged that firearms may or will be deployed during the course of a planned operation, and training given to explain why it is so important – for reasons of accountability and to establish an audit trail. b. Such notes should include the date, location and duration of the meeting, the identity of those present, the capacity in which they are attending, and details of decisions made and actions accepted or rejected. c. All planning meetings should be properly minuted and the minutes thereof should be centrally retained. d. All briefings relating to firearms operations should be audio-recorded unless it is not reasonably practicable on the grounds of sensitivity of information/intelligence to do so, in which case they should be minuted in the same way as planning meetings.
The Metropolitan Police Service stated in October 2022 that it had issued internal guidance requiring planning meetings for authorised armed operations to be comprehensively minuted, and had reviewed training to ensure proper record keeping across operational roles (Metropolitan Police Service response, Oct 2022). It added in October 2022 that recording all firearms briefings remained under national review alongside the College of Policing, after which it would consider necessary amendments to its standard operating procedure (Metropolitan Police Service response, Oct 2022). The record holds no update since the Metropolitan Police Service's response of October 2022 (Metropolitan Police Service response, Oct 2022).
Training for officers presenting firearms court applications
There should be training of those who are authorised by reason of rank to present such applications at court, and no-one should act as a substitute for a properly authorised person unless they have been appropriately trained. In any event, a copy of the Rules should be readily available in every chief inspector's office with which any officer making an application should be familiar (as is the case with Special Procedure Material applications).
The Inquiry recommended training for officers presenting court applications and making rules readily available. In October 2022, Lord Justice Holroyde, deputy chairman of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee, on behalf of the Committee, agreed that the relevant directions should be readily available to police officers (Lord Justice Holroyde response, Oct 2022). Writing in October 2022, he stated that the directions had appeared for some years on websites maintained by the Judicial Office and the Ministry of Justice (Lord Justice Holroyde response, Oct 2022). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of October 2022 (Lord Justice Holroyde response, Oct 2022).